Samsung is back on top of the global smartphone market.
Data released by market intelligence firm IDC on Monday showed that Samsung now has 20.8% of the smartphone market, shipping out 60.1 million Galaxy phones from January through March. Apple delivered 50.1 million iPhones in that same time frame, capturing the number two spot with 17.3% of the market.
A Google “Generative AI” image search on a Samsung S24 Ultra smartphone. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Samsung was the top-selling smartphone maker in the world for 12 years until Apple surpassed it at the end of 2023, taking the No. 1 spot for the first time with strong iPhone sales.
Now Samsung is back on top, fresh from the January release of its new Samsung Galaxy S24, which reportedly outperforms the iPhone 15 on 5G performance, according to the latest data, and has features powered…
